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Monday, February 13, 2012

Tutorial & creative recycling: rose made of jeans!

T his beautiful rose is made from jeans scraps, I would like to show you how I made it!
You can see another craft project with jeans here:Jeans Frame tutorial

Jeans rose tutorial

Materials:
- Recycled jeans
- Water based glue
- Scissors

1-Preparing petals, to do the day before ( must dry for 24 hours)
Cut a rectangle of jeans about 2" x 4"(5x10cm).
Cut from jeans shapes of petals like those in the pictures, you will need 3 smaller petals and 10 bigger petals.

Smaller petals are about 1,6"(4cm) high and bigger petals 2"(5cm).

Make a cut in the smaller petals, will be used to bend it and give it the shape of a rose petal.

In the bigger petals make two cuts in this way:

Now you have all the elements to compose the rose.

Pass on all the petals and on the rectangle some glue diluited in a lot of water:

Let them dry for 24 hours.

2- Composing the roseWhenthe petalsare dryyoucanmodel them and they will retainthe desired shape.Glue the smaller petals in this way to gave them the right shape:

Model petals to imitate those of a real rose:

They will maintain the shape that you gave them.

Make the same thing with bigger petal:

Stickthe firsttwotabstogether and then the third:

And model the petals:

Take the rectangle and bend it as shown in the picture below:

Begin to roll up it to form theinner part of therose:

Fix it with a drop of glue and cut the excess.

Now you can start adding all the petals!Stick the three smaller petals for first:

And then all the others, all around:

I used my rose to decor a bag, but it can be use for a lot of things, as a brooch, hairpin, to make a necklace, hair barretts...

hey i tried making it, but I am not being able to fix the stalk of the rose after rolling it to make the bud, and also please tell me how to stick all the petals together as my gum is not being able to stick the petals together. I tried using superglue but made the petals hard n messy. Can u please elaborately show how to stick the petals together. N your rose looks beautiful.

Hi Shanjita,I used a vinilic glue to stick the bud, you have to let it dry for 24hours. I used vinilic glue also to stick all the petals together. If you want to accelerate the entire process of glueing you can use a melt glue gun, so the petals will stick instantly and you will not have to wait to dry one by one.I hope I was helpful, let me know if you have other questions! Thank you!! :)